His primary teaching interests include the economics of information and macroeconomics, while his research interests are labor economics and contract theory. He has served as the Loeb Professor of Economics as well as head of the Department of Economics.
Barron is also a faculty affiliate in the Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE), which he was instrumental in launching in 2013 along with Krannert economics professor John Umbeck and current department head Justin Tobias.
He has had numerous articles published, including papers in the American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Law and Economics, International Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Labor Economics.
Over the course of his career, Barron has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor, the Small Business Administration, ARCO, Texaco, Shell, Visa International, Amoco, and various law firms. He has received research grants from the Brookings Institution, the Department of Labor, the National Institutes of Health, the Carthage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Small Business Administration, and W.E. Upjohn Foundation, among others.
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